Check-In Post June 8th 2023

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Today has been a mix of good and bad. Started out with one of the lenses falling out of my glasses as I was putting them on, so I had to fix them while still sitting up in bed so I didn't lose the tiny screw. Thankfully I keep a repair kit by my bed.


I got to sorting my rubber stamps and tried to fit all the stray ones into the same box as my others, but they wouldn't fit so I had to shove the rest in with some foam backed stamps. I did find several pads of crafting paper though. Then I went looking for my cutting dies, and they weren't in either of the boxes I thought they were in. Lost of embossing stencils, but no cutting dies. Finally found them only to discover the ones I wanted to use weren't there, and now I'm wondering whether or not I ever bought them...


But... I found my needle case, the one my sister made in school and decided she wanted back when she saw me using it! I This was more than 10 years ago and I haven't seen it since, so I figured I must have let her take it, but I opened a box and there it was, with all my needles still in it! So happy! It's tattered and falling apart, but I don't care. I have my needles and my bodkin!

[wiseheart]

Wow, you seem to have an incredible amount and variety of crafting tools! Sorting them out sounds to be a way of survival!

Annoying about the glasses, but at least you've managed to fix them.

[badly_knitted]

Oh yes, tons of tools that have scarcely been used. Hoping to use them more now I'm getting them sorted.

Luckily I didn't lose the little screw, although the kit does contain a couple of spares. Good thing it was within easy reach so I could get it one-handed while clutching the screw.

[wiseheart]

I went into town to finally visit my favourite craft shops that are not exactly withing easy reach. To celebrate that fact, I bought some really pretty craft paper. And even more craft paper. And a whole reel of chequered pink ribbon and lovely little rhinestone hearts in lilac because they were on offer. We won't discuss the sum I spent there; let's just say that I usually buy food for a week for roughly the same sum. But it was worth every cent of it.

It was a busy day, so I did very little actual crafting: cut out some more tag bases and started decorating the already existing ones. It's finicky work, but I enjoy it, so it's okay.

[badly_knitted]

Glad you managed to get nice things at the craft stores, even if they were pricey.

And well done for getting a bit more done with the tags. All progress is worthwhile.

[wiseheart]

I'm glad I've started work on this baby book so early. September seemed so far away, but look, it's June already, and I'm still at making the tags and far from being done.

[badly_knitted]

The months are flying past!